Cover-fastener



(No Model.) 7 I I H. D. STOCKBRIDGE.

GOV-ER FASTENER.

No. 539,095. Patented May 14, 1895.

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I UNIT STATES PATENT OFFIC HENRY D. STOOKBRIDGE, OF ROCHESTER, ASSIGNOROF ONE-HALF TO ISIDOR H. GEBALLE, OF MEDINA, NEW YORK.

COVER-IFASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 539,095, dated May 14,l. 895.

Application filed February 27, 1895. Serial No. 539.927. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY D. STooKBRIDeE, a resident of Rochester,inthecounty of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Packing and Storing Vessels; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itpertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to pails andlike vessels for holding andtransporting merchandise such as tobacco, lard, butter, fruit and thelike and has for its object to provide such an article with a cover andwith inexpensive fastenings therefor that can be conveniently securedand in a manner to prevent secret med dling with the contents; and itconsists in the construction hereinafter described and particularlypointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is apartial elevation. Fig. 3 is a partial section showing a modification.

Numeral 1 denotes the body of a pail preferably made of paper saturatedwith an insipid substance such as a vegetable gum or resin and rolledand baked to render it dense and non-absorbent. The pail may be paintedas usual but for use with most articles of food the inside both of thepail and its cover is left unpainted, and if paper material is treatedas above stated it will not impair the flavor of the contents of thevessel.

2 denotes a bail which may be omitted if desired.

3 indicates a cover having a circumferential flange or shoulder 4 nearits periphery to form a seat to receive the edge of the pail. Theshoulder fits the inner surface of the top of the pail and preventsaccess of dirt or intermeddling with the pail contents and holds thecover in its proper horizontal position. To this cover are securedrivets 6, two to four being a suitable number, made of copper or othermetal. The upper head of each of these rivets is slightly raised abovethe material of the cover to permit a copper or other wire 7 to besecured to its body under said head as by winding once or twice aroundit. If desired this head may be swaged or riveted down upon the wire.

8 denotes corresponding headed studs or rivets secured in the pail wallin such number and in such relation to rivets 6 that the wire held bythe latter can be conveniently twisted about said studs 8.

As indicated in Figs. 2 and 3,the fastenings above described can be usedto bind together a single pail and cover but they are also adapted foruse as indicated in Fig. 1 to bind a cover on a pail and also bind it toa second pail-having its cover, the two covers being placed together. Toefiect this the wires connected to the studs of one cover are passedabout the corresponding studs in the pail to which said cover pertainsand then bent back and twisted about the studs in the other pail, thussecurely binding the parts together end to end and fasteningin placeboth covers. In case four studs are used in each cover and acorresponding number in the pails it is obvious that two wires may beattached to two oppositely situated studs in each cover and all fourwires used to bind the covers on and the pails together as abovedescribed. I Y

It has been customary heretofore to tack on the covers and then securetogether the pails thus covered by detachable clamps. Such devices willnot answer the purposes of my invention for several reasons among whichan important one is that they do not afford the same security againstundetected meddling or pilfering as the clamps can be removed and thetacks easily withdrawn and then both replaced. Tacks also areobjectionable in the case of a single pail because they can be easilyremoved with a knife or the like and then replaced. Furthermore neithertacks nor pointed clips can well be forced into paper material such asherein set forth.

The improved device is also adapted for the use of seals as indicated inFig. 2. If however the fastening wire be sufficiently stifi to requirethe use of a tool to twist the ends together after they have been passedabout a stud or rivet such fastening will in itself constitute apractical seal.

In Fig. 3 the heads of the cover rivets 6' are represented as sunk inthe cover so as to leave the upper surface of the latter free fromobstruction or projection whereby when two pails are placed togethertheir covers will be in close contact.

I am aware that a cover has been secured upon a tub or pail by strapstacked to the cover and to the tub and also by bails pivoted to thecover and secured to the tub by screws or rotatable hooks. Such devicesare inapplicable to the purposes of my improvement which designedlyavoids the use of tacks, screws and the like, which cannot be used withpaper pails such as I contemplate and which in any case require the useof a tool to complete the fastening. My improvement also contemplates ause and advantage not heretofore disclosed in devices of this sort, andthat is the binding of two pails together for transportation by the samedevices which fasten on the cover of the pails or of one of them. I donot broadly claim the use of twisted wire as a securing device but onlyin the re lation hereinafter pointed out.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim isl. The pailmade of paper and provided with rivets fixed in its walls and having acover also provided with rivets fixed therein 3 and seated on said pail,and connecting wires looped around the rivets upon one part and havingtheir ends wound about the corresponding rivets upon the other part,whereby the cover can be secured upon the pail, sub- 5 stantially as setforth.

2. The pail made of paper and provided with rivets fixed in its wallsand having a cover also provided with rivets fixed therein and seated onsaid pail, and connecting wires 40 looped around the rivets upon onepart and having their ends wound about the corresponding rivets upon theother part, said ends being made sufficiently long to be wound aboutrivets similarly fixed in the wall of an 5 inverted superposed pailwhereby two pails may be fastened together, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subsorib- 5o ing witnesses.

HENRY D. STOCKBRIDGE.

Witnesses:

ARCH. M. CATLIN, BENJ. R. CATLIN.

